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TeuS 13 AN INFORMATION REPORT, HCT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE

S-E-C-R-E-T REPORT NO. CS DB-312/01409~-68

; “OATE DISTR. 28 June 1968
country Cuba

por “Late April 1968 ; .

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_ SUBJECT Prison Break at El] Principe Prison fo tite .
in Havana

aca Canada, Ottawa (25 June 1968) FIELD NO.

SOURCE An official Canadian service: from officials in Havana.

i 1. In late April 1968 there was a successful prison fo
bow break at the El Principe Prison in Havana.: A group of ota
: prisoners escaped by digging a tunnel to the courtyard of :
a neighboring hospital. After the escape, ex-Major H
Rolando Cubela cades, who was convicted in March 1966 -
for plotting to \assassinate Fidel Castro, was transferred 1
from El Principe ‘to a prison in Oriente Province. |

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} 2. %It was rumored that Huber Matos, imprisoned since
i October 1959, was one of the. escapees. However, according
ps . to the wife of a prisoner in La Cabana Prison in Havana,

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Matos and 20 other political prisoners were still in Gal-

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me, lery 23 of that prison, Although none of them wore’ prison : i :
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